10 DECEMBER

MI6 ARRANGES THE ASSASSINATION OF CONGO’S FIRST PRIME MINISTER. On 17 January 1961, Patrice Lumumba, Congo’s first democratically elected prime minister, was abducted, tortured and then shot dead in a coup masterminded by MI6.  Please feel welcome to post comments below.  If you have any questions please email alisdare@gmail.com © 2020 Alisdare Hickson All rights reserved

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MACMILLAN PRAISES DICTATOR DIEM 7 May 1962 – Prime Minister Harold Macmillan wrote a personal letter to President Ngô Dình Diệm, the dictator of South Vietnam, lauding his murderous regime. “We have viewed with admiration the way in which your government and people have resisted” attempts to “overthrow the freely established regime in South Vietnam,”…

NO WMD HERE BUT WE FOUND MARMALADE ! [ 27 November 2002 ] On this day in 2002, the British government pushed UN weapons inspectors in Iraq to investigate one of Saddam Hussein’s palaces on the Tigris river. Britain felt reasonably confident that Saddam Hussein would refuse them entry, thereby providing the United Kingdom and…

28 CIVILIANS SHOT DEAD IN ATHENS BY BRITISH ARMED NAZI COLLABORATORS Winston Churchill’s legendary qualities of courage and defiance are often celebrated. It is taken for granted that he was motivated primarily by a moral repugnance to Nazism. But if so it’s difficult to understand his decision in 1944 to release around 12,000 Nazi collaborators…

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